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The first inroad on Pseudophoenix on Elliott’s Key, aside 
from the destruction formerly wrought in clearing an ng 
of areas of h for making pineapple fields, occurred in 
1897 when at least ten tall specimens were remov e 
Key and taken to Miami. Th trees were p. ina 
was brought to the conservatories of the Garden. At present 
there are only two of the original ten specimens living where 
they were planted in 1897. 
ther specimens, almost innumerable, are now flourishing, 
a ever, where they have been meu aen and Pseudophoenix 
ssured not only of its place in ae ay rican flora, but in the 
pre group of ornamental t 
Joun K. SMALL 
SPRING AND SUMMER LECTURES 
A course of forty public lectures will be given in the Lecture 
il 15. ‘‘Botanizing in British Guiana 
April 16. “An Early Start for the Home Garden.” 
Mr. Hugh Findlay 
April 22. “Why Wild Flowers Should Be Haag 
"A. Murrill 
April 23. “English Gardens and the Newer ere 
lilda Loines 
April 29. “Growing Seeds for Farm and Gatien’ 
Dr. A. B. Stout 
April 30. ‘‘The Cultivation of Wild Flowers” 
Dr. E. T. Wherry 
